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TV News Election Night Likely to Carry Over for Days and Days
TV-news coverage of Election Night is likely to last for nearly a week, forcing NBC News, ABC News, Fox News and others to open a different playbook
While a determination of which candidate wins the election is certainly possible Tuesday evening or early Wednesday morning, all the major TV-news outlets are prepared for the process to take days — just as it did in 2020. That means cable news outlets will likely have to stay in wall-to-wall coverage for days while their broadcast-news counterparts will need to jump back into special-report mode at any moment. Bill Sammon, a former Fox News veteran who left that organization following the 2020 election, during which conservative viewers were dismayed by the outlet’s accurate prediction that Joe Biden would win Arizona, will play a key role in that facet of NewsNation’s coverage.
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